Climbing around Paklenica – Vaganac, Vranjaca and Obil Kuk
Paklenica is deservedly the most famous climbing destination in Croatia – this 15km long canyon starts just a couple of km from the coast and snakes its way up into […]
Paklenica is deservedly the most famous climbing destination in Croatia – this 15km long canyon starts just a couple of km from the coast and snakes its way up into […]
The Velebit massif is the largest (though not the highest) mountain range in Croatia. It sits proudly overlooking the Adriatic, and runs for around 150km down the spine of the […]
Escaping some iffy weather in Istria we hoped to sample the climbing on Krk (a handy island destination because it is now connected via a now free bridge), but that […]
Kompanj is the other 5* crag in the Buzet area; a defiant final outcrop of immaculate white and orange limestone on the 100km escarpment before it fizzles out towards Rijeka. […]
Istria, the bulbous peninsula at the northern end of the Adriatic, is separated from the rest of Croatia by the Učka mountains, which are protected as a Nature Park. The […]
The Karst escarpment that hosts so much quality climbing in this corner of the Adriatic runs for around 100km from Monfalcone in Italy, south east through Trieste, nips across Slovenia, […]
The RockAroundTheWorld bus is back in action and heading for an autumn escape to Croatia. If you plot a route via the Hull-Rotterdam ferry, you’ll find you pretty much drive […]
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When people ask me “How did you get into Big Wall climbing?” they’re invariably surprised to hear that my entire apprenticeship took place over a couple of hours in Hobson […]
Scattered showers across the country prompted the inevitable journey along the A55. Stan and I try to schedule a Gogarth trip each year in the early Autumn, once the bird […]